Heron Island Travel Guide
Heron Island accommodation, Heron Island activities and attractions, Heron Island maps, transportation to and around Heron Island - the Jasons Heron Island Destination Travel Guide is your complete visitor guide for Heron Island.
Heron Island is beautiful coral cay, part of the world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef National Park located 72 km northeast of Gladstone. Heron Island is a well established Barrier Reef Holiday resort, with white sandy beaches, clear blue water and unparalleled diving.
Activities on Heron Island are typical of most Great Barrier Reef resorts; visitors can enjoy bushwalking, snorkelling on the reef, playing tennis on the resort's courts, enjoying boat trips out across the reef, bird watching, whale watching between June and October and enjoying the vast expanses of white sand beaches.
Heron Island is also renowned for its world classdiving diving. The deep sea channel between Heron Island and Wistari reef gives divers the ability to explore the edge of the cay while remaining in calm waters.
Heron is renowned for its abundance of birdlife with dense Pisonia forests which are home to thousands of Noddy Terns. Because of the rich ecological diversity, Heron Island also serves as the headquarters for a University of Queensland marine geology survey and research team.
It is possible to reach the island by a short, and spectacular, helicopter flight from Gladstone. There is also a two hour fast catamaran trip.
